Post-Chavez socialism: Electricity snag for petroleum rich Venezuela

The late Hugo Chavez’s anointed successor, President Nicolas Maduro, has his work cut out for him if he continues on the socialist path in Venezuela.

Mount Roraima in Venezuela. (Photo: CIA World Fact Book)Electricity blackouts have been a problem and international media have reported the new president has declared a 90-day “electricity emergency.”

Venezuela is the world’s 11^th largest exporter of refined petroleum products among 211 countries. In crude oil reserves, Venezuela is second to Saudi Arabia.

At least 31.6 percent of the country is below the poverty line. Inflation was at 21 percent in 2011 and nationalizing agribusiness, construction and steel have, according to the CIA World Factbook, basically tanked production.

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Can the GOP meet the challenge of ‘Wage Class War’ extremists?

Victims of Communism Memorial, North Capitol St., NW, Washington, D.C. (Photo: Carol M. Highsmith; U.S. Library of Congress Digital Collection)History abounds with stories about political movements that pit one class of people against another. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history gained power by pitting class against class on the basis of skin color, religious creed, ethnicity and other factors.

That is what we are experiencing in America at the hands of Democrats. Perpetual Leftists  founded a website, ‘Wage Class War,’ as a tactic in the political war to gain control of what has been the most prosperous country in modern times.

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Florida PAC vows to “defeat” Republican Party; backs alleged Indian for Senate

Graphic by J.K./The US ReportA new PAC, Haphak America, wants the Republican Party to go the way of the Whigs. The PAC was founded by Cesar Ruiz whose bio on the PAC website said he “resides and works in the Mortgage Banking Industry as an Underwriter servicing major banking institutions.”  

A press release from Haphak said:

“Haphak America is committed to stop voter suppression, intentional repression of government worker negotiation rights and the use of special interest funds that are focusing the Republican Party in a direction that is contrary to the rights and interests of American citizens.”

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Obama speech on business shows why everyone can’t own a business

President Barack Obama’s campaign and his supporters in general come up short when they attempt to “tell a story” as the president recently put it.

Obama’s statements on Friday in Virginia show why many small business owners believe a second term under the Democrat would be a disaster for the economy.

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Actually, Vice President Biden, we DO get you

Vice President Joe Biden displayed some serious theatrics at a campaign event in Ohio. (Screen snip, The Blaze)Have you seen Vice President Joe Biden screeching about presumptive GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney’s “philosophy”?

Biden—not a politician known for tongue control—told a crowd at an event in Ohio:

“They don't get us, they don't get who we are.”

Fact is, Vice President Biden, we DO get you.

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Occupy Wall Street: UAW recently endorsed, but prepared for it ahead of time

Screen Snip from a video featured at The Blaze shows a labor union supporter attacking Charles Payne’s position on self-reliance. Labor supporters build their argument around the thesis no one really succeeds on his own. One example is the argument that for you to succeed, you had to drive on a road others built and paid for or use institutions built collectively. Where the argument fails: those who succeed fund most of the tax revenue in this country. Progressives want the majority of wealth controlled by government, a system that has never delivered the social justice they claim to seek. The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America—commonly called the UAW—officially endorsed Occupy Wall Street on Wednesday.

However, the UAW had prepared for such protests far in advance.

In the March-April issue of the group’s magazine Solidarity, UAW said, “A global movement is mounting.”

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Chavez errs with criminal capitalism in climate change

Venezuela chief Hugo Chavez, is raging about “criminal capitalism,” saying this is what led to vast amounts of rain in his country, causing at least 70,000 of his people to become homeless (Reuters). Capitalism is Chavez's global warming/climate change culprit.

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